Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give our parting word. Nearly everything seems to have been said; yet we will venture this: A few years ago commencement speakers were telling their audiences of the bright future that awaited them. This year they are either openly admitting that the prospect is dark or are trying to explain why the world has gone wrong. This year few speakers have wished that they were young men just beginning -- they seem on the other hand to be glad that they can so soon step aside...
...scoffing of the world at the benefits of a college education has a plausible ring to the disgruntled Freshman. It is such an easy way for him to explain why he has gained nothing in college by declaring that there was nothing to be gained. Statistics of the number of college graduates who hold high stations in the world have little effect on him, and that is not unnatural. The value of Harvard training cannot be proved by figures...
...every visitor to Cambridge, no matter from what school he may come, is properly entertained and given a fair idea of what the University is, we must beware of overzealous publicity. The object of the school clubs is to present Harvard to possible Freshmen as it really is, to explain to them its ideals and what it stands for, and to bring here only those men who believe in these ideals. Too much enthusiastic but misguided enthusiasm will do as much harm as good...
...admits that the "theory of relativity" for which he is most famous has not yet been definitely proved. Indeed, he has merely pointed out the fact that rays of light are deflected from a straight line by the gravitational field of the sun, a fact which can not be explained by the existing scientific laws, and which Einstein can explain only by a very intricate mathematical formula...
...faculty members is this, "Student activities are at least 50 percent of a college education if not more". But do they give 50 percent consideration for such work? A student who had committed the hideous offense of nodding in class was ordered by the broad-mined instructor to explain. When told that in was due to outside work the instructor replied. "Well, if you cannot carry that and stay awake in class, drop the activities". They lack the courage of their convictions, to say the least. A student is justified in cutting the corners in such a case. --Purdue Exponent...